The Gosple According to Ruth (Part 5) - a podcast by High River CRC

Love Story

Scripture Reading – Ruth 4 (ESV)

   “And”, in the words of Bilbo Baggins, the hero of JRR Tolkien’s, The Hobbit, “they lived happily ever after to the end of their days...”Or so it seems, but how do you end a love story?

    That is, after all, what we’ve been studying as we’ve worked our way through Book of Ruth.  It’s a story about the love of a young Moabite woman for her Israelite family; a family that had been driven by famine to leave Israel and to go down into enemy territory.  It’s a story about the way that she loved a her mother-in-law so much that even when everything went wrong and all the men in the family had died, still, she refused to let go and to return to the home of her own family.  And it’s a story about the love that this same young Moabite woman came to share with an ageing farmer who first noticed her as she was following his servants, trying to glean a little grain from that which the harvesters left behind.  It’s a story about love that refused to be thwarted by prejudice and fear; love that flirted with the boundaries of tradition and then crossed them.

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